fish, n.¹

  fish and chips   n. a dish consisting of fried fish and fried chipped potatoes; also elliptical for a shop at which this dish may be bought ready-cooked; also attributive, esp. in form fish-and-chip.

  fish-backed adj. shaped like a fish's back, swelling upwards.

  fish bar   n. British a bar, counter, or cafe serving fish and chips and (usually) other light meals.ⓘ

† fish-basil   n. Obsolete (see quot.).

  fish-basket   n.  (a) a basket used for carrying fish (see Compounds 2a(b));  (b) U.S. a creel for catching fish.

  fish-bed   n. a deposit containing the fossil remains of fishes.

  fish-bellied adj. shaped like a fish's belly, ‘curved underneath, the depth of curve increasing towards the centre’ (Lockwood).

  fish belly   n.  (a) see quot. 1878;  (b) attributive = fish-bellied adj.;  (c) used attributively of a degree of whiteness.

  fish-blooded adj. cold-blooded.

  fishbone-stitch   n. (see quot. 1957).

  fishbone-thistle   n. = fish-thistles n.

  fish-brant   n. U.S. a snow goose.

  fish-brine   n. a fish-sauce.

  fish-broth   n. (see Compounds 2a(c)), humorously, salt-water.

  fish-car   n. a box in which fish are carried alive in the water.

  fish-carle   n. Scottish a fisherman (Jamieson).

  fish-carrier   n.  (a) a vessel used to transport the ‘catch’ from the fishing-boats to the shore;  (b) a contrivance for keeping fish alive whilst transporting them from place to place.

  fish-carver   n. a carving knife for fish; plural a carving knife and fork for fish.

† fish-climber   n. Obsolete ? = fish-berry n.

  fish-commissioner   n. an officer appointed to superintend fisheries.

  fish-coop   n.  (a) = fish-pot n.;  (b) ‘a box about three feet square used in fishing through ice’ ( Cent. Dict.).

  fish-cow   n. = cow-fish n. 1.

  fish-crow   n. U.S. a crow ( Corvus ossifragus) that feeds mainly on fish.

  fish-cultural adj. of, pertaining to, or concerned in fish-culture, piscicultural.

  fish-culture   n. the artificial breeding of fish, pisciculture.

  fish-culturist   n. one engaged in fish-culture, a fish-breeder, a pisciculturist.

  fish dive   n. (see quot. 1952).

  fish-eagle   n. an eagle that preys upon fish.

† fish-ear   n. Obsolete (see quot.).

  fish-eater   n.  (a) one who lives chiefly upon fish;  (b) chiefly plural a knife and fork to eat fish with.

  fish-eye   n.  (a) (also fish's eye) a variety of moonstone; a diamond or imitation diamond;  (b) (see quot. 1958);  (c) used attributively or as adj. of a wide-angle lens with a curved front resembling a fish's eye; also elliptical.

  fish-eye-stone   n. Mineralogy obsolete synonym of apophyllite n.

  fish-face   n. a term of abuse.

  fish-fag   n. a female hawker of fish, a fishwife.

  fish-farm   n. a place where fish-culture is carried on.

  fish-farmer   n.

  fish-farming n.

† fish-fast   n. Obsolete the observance of fish-days (see fish-day n.).

  fish-feast   n. U.S. a festival traditionally held by North American Indians at the beginning of the salmon season.

  fish festival   n. = fish-feast n.

  fish-finder   n. a device for locating fish.

  fish finger   n. a small finger-shaped or rectangular section of fish coated in batter or breadcrumbs.

  fish-flake   n. U.S. a frame upon which fish is laid to dry.

  fish-flour   n.  (a) = fish-meal n.;  (b) ‘a dry inodorous fertilizer made from fishes, used for manure’ ( Cent. Dict.).

  fish-fly   n. U.S. any of various small insects belonging to the order Megaloptera and family Corydalidæ, especially those included in the genus Chauliodes.

  fish food   n.  (a) = 3;  (b) the food eaten by fishes.

  fish-fry   n.  (a) U.S. a picnic where fish is fried and eaten;  (b) = fry n.¹ 3.

  fish-gaff   n. a pole with an iron hook at the end by means of which heavy fish are secured when caught with a line.

  fish geranium   n. U.S. a garden variety of geranium, Pelargonium hortorum.

  fish-glue n. glue obtained from the bladders and sounds of fish, isinglass.

  fish-gorge   n. a primitive implement for catching fish, consisting of something (e.g. a stone) fastened by a string for the fish to swallow.

  fish guano   n. = fish-manure n.

  fish-hatcher   n. one who rears fish from spawn.

  fish-hatchery   n. a place for the rearing of fish by artificial means.

  fish-hatching   n.

  fish-hawk   n. the osprey, or bald-buzzard ( Pandion haliaëtus).

  fish-horn   n. a tin horn used on fishing-boats or by sellers of fish.

  fish-house   n.  †(a) a place where fish are kept;  (b) a place where fish is sold.

  fish insect   n. = silver-fish n. 2.

  fish-kettle   n. a long oval vessel for boiling fish.

  fish-knife   n. a broad knife, usually of silver, for cutting and serving fish at table; also, a knife for eating fish with.

  fish-ladder   n. a series of steps to enable fish to ascend a fall or dam by a succession of leaps.

  fish-leaves   n. the pondweed Potamogeton natans, the flat leaves of which were formerly supposed to give shelter to fish.

† fish-leep   n. Obsolete a fish-basket.

  fish-liquor   n. the liquid in which a fish has been boiled.

  fish-lock   n. = fish-weir n.

  fish-man   n.  †(a) one who makes a meal of fish;  (b) a fish hawker;  (c) a fisherman;  (d) a student of ichthyology.

  fish-manure   n. a manure or fertilizer composed of fish.

† fish-mariner   n. Obsolete the sail-fish.

  fish-marten   n. (see quot.).

  fish-maw   n. the sound or air-bladder of a fish.

  fish-meal n. dried fish ground to a meal.

  fish-meter   n. (see quot.).

† fish-mint   n. Obsolete water-mint.

  fish-moth   n. = silver-fish n. 2.

  fish-oil   n. oil obtained from fishes and marine animals, spec. cod-liver oil and whale oil.

  fish-owl   n. an eared fishing owl, of the genus Ketupa, with rough feet.

  fish paper   n.  (a) paper on which cooked fish is laid;  (b) (see quot. 1924).

  fish-pass   n. = fish-way n.

  fish paste   n. = paste n. 5.

  fish-pearl   n. an artificial pearl (see quot.).

  fish pie   n.  (a) a baked dish of fish (and usually vegetables) covered with pastry, typically also having a base and sides of pastry;  (b) a dish of fish (and usually vegetables) in a white sauce covered with mashed potato and then baked (now chiefly British). ⓘ

  fish-plate   n. the perforated draining plate of a fish-kettle.

  fish-poison   n. a name given to various plants which have an intoxicating effect upon fish, causing them to float helplessly on the surface of the water.

  fish pole   n. U.S. a pole used as a fishing-rod.

  fish-pomace   n. the refuse of fish after the oil has been expressed, used as a fertilizer.

  fish-pot   n. a wicker basket for catching fish, esp. eels, also crabs, lobsters, etc.

  fish-potter   n. one who uses or has charge of fish-pots.

† fish-range   n. Obsolete a place for catching and drying fish.

  fish-room   n. (see quots.).

  fish sauce   n. sauce made to be eaten with fish.

  fish sausage   n. a sausage made with fish.

  fish-scrap   n. fish refuse, used as a fertilizer.

  fish slice   n. a fish-carving knife; also, a kitchen utensil with a broad flat blade for lifting fish and fried foods.

  fish-sound   n. the swimming bladder of a fish.

† fish-stew   n. Obsolete = fishpond n.: see stew n.¹

  fish stick   n.  (a) (see quot. 1868);  (b) North American = fish finger n.

† fish-stone   n. Obsolete ? a stone table for the sale of fish.

  fish-story   n. an incredible tale or ‘yarn’.

† fish-stove   n. Obsolete = fish-stew n.

  fish supper   n. a supper meal with fish as the main course; spec. (esp. Scottish), a meal of fish and chips bought from a take-away restaurant.

  fish tank   n. a tank to hold live (esp. ornamental) fish, an aquarium.

  fish-tiger   n. a bird that preys upon fish.

  fish-torpedo   n. a torpedo resembling a fish in shape and with an automatic swimming action.

  fish-trowel   n. a fish-carver in the shape of a trowel.

  fish-ward   n. U.S. = fish-warden n.

  fish-warden   n. U.S. ‘an officer who has jurisdiction over the fisheries of any particular locality’ ( Cent. Dict.).

  fish-way   n. an arrangement for enabling fish to ascend a fall or dam.

  fish-weir   n.  †(a) a draught of fishes;  (b) = fishgarth n.

  fish-wood   n.  (a) (see quot.);  (b) ‘the strawberry bush, Euonymus americanus’ ( Cent. Dict.).

  fish-worm   n. U.S. = earthworm n. 1; cf. worm n. 8b.

† fish-yard   n. Obsolete = fishgarth n.